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Cross-site Scripting occurrences in Uaa
An issue was discovered in these Pivotal Cloud Foundry products: all versions prior to cf-release v270, UAA v3.x prior to v3.20.2, and UAA bosh v30.x versions prior to v30.8 and all other versions prior to v45.0. A cross-site scripting (XSS) attack is possible in the clientId parameter of a request to the UAA OpenID Connect check session iframe endpoint used for single logout session management. (2018-01-04, CVE-2018-1190)
Why Cross-site Scripting can be dangerous
Cross site scripting is an attack where a web page executes code that is injected by an adversary. It usually appears, when users input is presented. This attack can be used to impersonate a user, take over control of the session, or even steal API keys.
The attack can be executed e.g. when you application injects the request parameter directly into the HTML code of the page returned to the user:
https://server.com/confirmation?message=Transaction+Complete
what results in:
<span>Confirmation: Transaction Complete</span>
In that case the message can be modified to become a valid Javascript code, e.g.:
https://server.com/confirmation?message=<script>dangerous javascript code here</script>
and it will be executed locally by the user's browser with full access to the user's personal application/browser data:
<span>Confirmation: <script>dangerous javascript code here</script></span>